{"id":1896,"date":"2021-12-03T00:12:00","date_gmt":"2021-12-03T00:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailywool.net\/wp\/?p=1896"},"modified":"2021-12-05T00:13:15","modified_gmt":"2021-12-05T00:13:15","slug":"those-tiny-hands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailywool.net\/wp\/those-tiny-hands\/","title":{"rendered":"Those Tiny Hands"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-drop-cap has-medium-font-size\">Doubt not, but believe that it was he who was born to earth in a manger when there was no room in the inn. Well did an angel ask a prophet who had foreseen these things in vision: \u201cKnowest thou the condescension of God?\u201d (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.churchofjesuschrist.org\/study\/scriptures\/bofm\/1-ne\/11.16?lang=eng#p16\">1 Ne. 11:16<\/a>.) I suppose none of us can fully understand that\u2014how the great Jehovah should come among men, his birth in a manger, among a hated people, in a vassal state. But at his birth there was an angelic chorus that sang of his glory. There were shepherds who worshiped him. There was a new star in the east. There were wise men who traveled far to bring tribute of gold, frankincense, and myrrh. One can surmise they touched those tiny hands in wonder and awe as they presented their gifts to the newborn king. \u2013 <em>Gordon B. Hinckley, \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.churchofjesuschrist.org\/study\/general-conference\/1978\/04\/be-not-faithless?lang=eng\">Be Not Faithless<\/a>,\u201d Ensign (CR) May 1978<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Doubt not, but believe that it was he who was born to earth in a manger when there was no room in the inn. Well did an angel ask a prophet who had foreseen these things in vision: \u201cKnowest thou the condescension of God?\u201d (1 Ne. 11:16.) I suppose none of us can fully understand [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[210,601],"class_list":["post-1896","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wool-quote","tag-christmas","tag-king"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailywool.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1896","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailywool.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailywool.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailywool.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailywool.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1896"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dailywool.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1896\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1897,"href":"https:\/\/dailywool.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1896\/revisions\/1897"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailywool.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailywool.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1896"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailywool.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}